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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. You just can’t convince the American people of that.

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Black History Month: The Role of Higher Education in Black Activism

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout its history, higher education in the U.S. has served as both an institutional oppressor of Black Americans and as a stronghold for resistance against racism and discrimination in society. Throughout history, some activists who were for Black liberation found their homes in the academy.”.

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Summer Sessions Are Integral to Student Success in Higher Education

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Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways.

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Indigenous Peoples in Higher Education: Inherited Histories and Pernicious Status Quos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alex Red Corn Recently at our Indigenous Peoples Day gathering at Kansas State University, Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee spoke from the heart about matters related to Shawnee histories and their ongoing presence as a Native nation. and worldwide, have a complicated relationship with institutions of education.

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Women make history on stages big and small by lifting each other up

UW Presidential Blog

At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer.

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The contested rise of ‘institutional autonomy’

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. This piece is the first part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. There is now an enormous range of ‘higher education providers’.

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Higher Education Summer Sessions: Past, Present, and Future

MindMax

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year, and summer programming is an essential component of their offerings. A Brief History of Summer Programming. Opportunistic Era.